"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."

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"My mother said I was a clingy kid until I was about four. I also remember that from the age of eight she and I fought almost every day."

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"I would still like to have that luxury, to be able to just sit and draw for hours and hours and hours. In a way, that's what I do as a writer."

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"I would find myself laughing and wondering where these ideas came from. You can call it imagination, I suppose. But I was grateful for wherever they came from."

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"It's a luxury being a writer, because all you ever think about is life."

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"I didn't fear failure. I expected failure."

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"You can get sucked into the idea that, 'Gosh, this is impressive. Maybe I should do this. It will look good.' Or 'I'll write like this because it will impress that critic.'"

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"I did not lose myself all at once. I rubbed out my face over the years washing away my pain, the same way carvings on stone are worn down by water."

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"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

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"God, life changes faster than you think."

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"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."

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